[event:zines]
Broken Pencil magazine presents....
Hotel Canzine!
Canada's Largest Zine Fair and Festival of Alternative Culture
Sunday, October 19th, 2003
1pm-7 pm
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin)
Free admission! All Welcome!
Now in its ninth year, Canzine is Canada's only annual zine fair and festival of alternative culture featuring over 150 underground periodicals on display from across Canada. Don't miss our radical film and reading events, and hands-on workshops. Canzine is your chance to explore independent Canadian culture at its best.
Here's some of what is happening on the day:
Giant Zine Fair!
Over 150 zines from across Canada on display and for sale! (Those interested in booking tables can call, email or register online at
www.brokenpencil.com.)
Video Screenings
Open Screening. All are welcome to bring videos (VHS or DVD only, 10 minutes and under) to show to the world. Come at noon to register. Screening 1:00-2:30.
Curated Video Program by Emelie Chhangur. "Fingers in the Till" and "Pretty Things" are the names of the two video programs selected by Chhangur to showcase the best in Canadian video art. Chhangur is a Toronto-based artist and curator who recently moved from the post of exhibition coordinator at The Power Plant to assistant curator of the Art Gallery of York University. Screening 2:30-4:30.
Hotel Canzine
Some of Toronto's brightest and weirdest will be creating immersive environments for our Canzine guests to explore. Utilizing hotel rooms at the Gladstone, these will be wild, wacky places to check in to and check out. Acclaimed literary zine
Kiss Machine hosts a Room of Secrets; Pages Books sponsors the Make Your Own Zine Room with hosts The Action Grrlz; comic artist Marc Ngui builds his own unique one-man world in pen and ink; and queer zine
TRADE brings further surprises.
Radical Reading Series
Readings from some of North America's greatest indie writing talent. Featuring:
• FLY: Returning from New York City, this Halifax-born indie veteran is an infamous comic artist, squatter, musician and world traveler. A former member of jazz-punk band God-Is-My-Co-Pilot, her recent book
Peops (Soft Skull Press, 2003) features sketches and stories of the 100s of people she has met on the road and in the margins.
• Dana Bath: Montreal-based writer and one of Canada's newest and best literary talents will be reading from her collection
Universal Recipients (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003), a book of fictions that follow characters through Ireland, Newfoundland, Quebec, Japan and Thailand.
• Gustave Morin: From Windsor, Ontario, Morin is one of Canada's most explosive indie talents, a graphic pioneer whose new book
A Penny Dreadful (Insomniac, 2003) showcases his awesome collage sketches, fusions of the horrible and the hilarious that confront the offences of everyday life.
• Nicole Aube: Toronto's newest discovery, Aube unites edge and academia. This 22-year-old University of Toronto student publishes her first book
Waterbird this fall (Gutter Press, 2003). With short stories of quirk and quality, Aube follows in the footsteps of young writers like Sheila Heti.
Hands-on Workshops
Two hour-long demos are hosted by Toronto's most popular anti-pop workers:
• Time Management for Anarchists will be led by author, Perpetual Motion Roadshow tour manager, and No Media King Jim Munroe from 1:30-2:30.
• Taking Zines Outside explores the use of public space for creative means.
Eye Magazine's comic strip artist m@b, an activist and self-publishing aficionado, shows us how to go beyond the zine and interact with our city. Field trip between 2:30-3:30.
Canzine is an annual event organized by
Broken Pencil, the Magazine of Zine Culture and the Underground Arts. For interviews with Canzine coordinators or any of the Canzine participants, to receive a complete media package, or to get more information on the festival or magazine contact: Broken Pencil, PO Box 203, Station P, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S7, email:
editor@brokenpencil.com visit:
www.brokenpencil.com, phone: (416) 416 588 3168
Canzine is made possible by a grant from the Toronto Arts Council. Canzine is sponsored by: Steam Whistle Brewery, Toronto Public Library, CBC Radio 3, Pages Books, the Canadian Magazine Publishing Association, Marginal Distribution, Mint Records, Insomniac Press, Coach House Books, CKLN 88.1, and NOW Magazine.
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thanks to the Edmonton Small Press Association ]
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